A unique resource for information about different countries. It provides some basic demographics, but it also shares details about communication style, dress, gestures, etc.
A project of the National Museums Online Learning Project in Great Britain. You can search through nine of the largest British museums can create "notebooks" of different items and describe them. You can also create groups.
Here is a compilation of the world's most renowned works of art from several influencial artists. From paintings, to frescoes, to murals to sculptures, this selection contains many of the greatest and most seminal worksof art created by the most talented artists to ever put a brush to canvas or a chisel to stone
An interactive from the Sun-Sentinel newspaper in Florida. It shows images and descriptions of various holiday foods. If you click on them, you'll then see how much exercise you have to do in order to "work off" each food's calories.
an interactive graphic from the Washington Post. It lets you choose from a variety of grocery sections. Then, you choose brand names from that product category. You're then shown the different nutritional values of your choice, and you can compare that with other options. You can then fill-up a virtual grocery cart with your "purchases" and see a total nutritional information for everything you've "bought."
Through this collection of definitions, lessons, problem-solving steps and strategies and example questions, you'll learn why completing an algebra problem is a lot like solving a puzzle. Users explore exponents, simplifying, factoring, logarithms, polynomials, linear equations, quadratic equations and functions.
Awesome Stories has been a great source of information, particularly about history, for students since it began in 1999. It has thousands of very accessible stories about countless subjects.
All you have to do is type in a zip code for anywhere in the United States, and you immediately get information from the 2000 Census, along with a map of the area. Not only that, you can also compare the data with neighboring zip codes.